Gary L. Piper

Gary L. Piper

Specialization and Areas of Interest

I teach various integrated pest management (IPM 201, 399, 452/552 and 462/562) and entomology (ENTOM 350) courses to undergraduate and graduate students. I advise students pursuing the Agriculture and Food Security major in the Agricultural and Food Systems B.S. degree program and also am an academic advisor for graduate students. My research, both basic and applied, is conducted on the biological control of invasive noxious weeds in rangeland, wildland, and aquatic ecosystems using nonindigenous arthropods and pathogens. Research aspects encompass natural enemy survey, importation, establishment, translocation, impact assessment, and bioagent life history studies. My outreach work involves providing educational programming on biological weed control efforts and responding to constituent requests for information on insect and weed pest identification/management.

Piper, G. L. 2011. Early Season Aggregation Behavior in Adult Larinus minutus, an Introduced Phytophage of Centaurea spp. in North America. XIII International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, Waikoloa, HI.